In Greek mythology, Glaucus (/ˈɡlɔːkəs/; Ancient Greek: Γλαῦκος, Glaûkos means "greyish blue" or "bluish green" and "glimmering") was the name of the following figures:
- Glaucus, a sea-god[1]
- Glaucus, son of Sisyphus and a Corinthian king.[2]
- Glaucus, a mythical Lycian captain in the Trojan War.[3]
- Glaucus, son of King Minos of Crete.[4]
- Glaucus, one of the twelve younger Panes, offspring of Pan. He came to join Dionysus in his campaign against India.[5]
- Glaucus, son of Aretus and Laobie. He joined Deriades, along with his father and brothers, against Dionysus in the Indian War.[6]
- Glaucus, husband of Laophonte and father of Leda in some variants of the myth.[7] He may be the same as Glaucus, the son of Sisyphus if hypothetical deduction of genealogy be used.
- Glaucus, one of the Dolionians, a people living in northwestern Asia Minor. He was killed by Jason when the Argonauts came to the country.[8]
- Glaucus, a Trojan prince and one of the sons of King Priam by an unknown woman.[9] He and his brothers, Antiphus, Agavus and Agathon, were all slain by Ajax the Great.[10]
- Glaucus, son of Antenor,[11] one of the Trojan elders, and Theano. He was the brother of Crino,[12] Acamas,[13][14] Agenor,[15][16] Antheus,[17] Archelochus,[18][19] Coön,[20] Demoleon,[21] Eurymachus,[22] Helicaon,[23] Iphidamas,[24] Laodamas,[25][26] Laodocus,[27] Medon,[28] Polybus[15][29] and Thersilochus.[28] Glaucus was rescued during the sack of Troy by the intervention of Odysseus and Menelaus.[30]
- Glaucus, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Dulichium along with other 56 wooers.[31] He, with the other suitors, was shot dead by Odysseus with the aid of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.[32]
- Glaucus, a son of Aepytus.[33]
- ^ Pausanias, 9.22.7
- ^ Gilbert Murray, The Eumenides of Aeschylus (Oxford University Press, 1925), p. 15.
- ^ Homer, Iliad 2.876 & 6.199
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 136
- ^ Nonnus, 4.67 ff.
- ^ Nonnus, 26.250 ff.
- ^ Alcman, fr. 15 as cited in Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.146
- ^ Valerius Flaccus, 1.153
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.12.5; Dictys Cretensis, 4.7
- ^ Dictys Cretensis, 4.7
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid 6.484; Apollodorus, Epitome 5.21; Dictys Cretensis, 4.7; Pausanias, 10.27.3
- ^ Pausanias, 10.27.4
- ^ Apollodorus, E.3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 11.60 & 12.100
- ^ Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 61, Prologue 806–807, p. 219, 11.44–46. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
- ^ a b Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 219, 11.44–46. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
- ^ Homer, Iliad 11.59, 21.545 & 579
- ^ Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 134
- ^ Apollodorus, E.3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 12.100 & 14.464
- ^ Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 61, Prologue 806–807. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
- ^ Homer, Iliad 11.248 & 256, 19.53
- ^ Homer, Iliad 20.395
- ^ Pausanias, 10.27.3
- ^ Homer, Iliad 3.123
- ^ Homer, Iliad 11.221 & 261; Pausanias, 4.36.4 & 5.19.4
- ^ Homer, Iliad 15.516
- ^ Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 283, 15.193. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
- ^ Homer, Iliad 4.87
- ^ a b Virgil, Aeneid 6.484
- ^ Homer, Iliad 11.59
- ^ Apollodorus, E.5.21
- ^ Apollodorus, E.7.26–27
- ^ Apollodorus, E.7.33
- ^ Pausanias, 4.3.9–10